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2024-04-25 International-UN-NGOs

Washington says ‘real progress' needed before restoring UNRWA funding

[IsraelTimes] White House welcomes independent report that rebuffed Israel’s claim staff are linked to terror; agency head calls for UNSC probe into ’blatant disregard’ for UN operations in Gaza

The White House says it will "have to see real progress" before restoring its funding to the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
agency for Paleostinians, the main aid agency operating in war-torn Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
National Security Council front man John Kirby’s comments Tuesday came as a number of countries that froze aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following accusations by Israel have reinstated funding after a probe found that other claims had not been backed up by evidence.

"In terms of our funding of UNRWA, that is still suspended. We’re gonna have to see real progress here before that gets changed," Kirby said.

Israel charged earlier this year that at least 12 UNRWA staff had participated in the October 7 massacre. It also alleged that thousands more of the agency’s employees had ties to terror groups or were members themselves.

An independent review into UNRWA found some "neutrality-related issues" in a much-anticipated report released Monday, such as agency staff sharing biased posts on social media and tensions between politicized staff unions and the agency’s upper management. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the report found Israel had yet to provide evidence for incendiary allegations that staff were members of terrorist organizations.

Many donor countries have resumed funding since Israel’s accusations, including Sweden, Canada, Japan, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and La Belle France — while others, particularly the United States and Britannia — have continued to hold out.

"We welcome the results of this report and strongly support the recommendations in the report," Kirby said, noting that the US also faced legal constraints in restarting its funding.

Congress passed a bill signed into law by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
last month that blocks US funding until March 2025.

In a separate investigation, a UN oversight body is looking into the Israeli allegations against the 12 UNRWA staff.

After the Monday report was released, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said Tuesday that the claims against the agency were "primarily motivated by the objective to strip the Paleostinians from the refugee status — and this is a reason why there are pushes today for UNRWA not to be present" in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israel has long complained about the agency, founded in 1949 to care for Paleostinian refugees. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for UNRWA to be shut down, saying it is infested by terror elements and unjustly seeks to perpetuate a Paleostinian refugee crisis.

Lazzarini called for a Security Council investigation into the "blatant disregard" for UN operations in Gaza, adding that 180 of the agency’s staff have been killed since the war began. He said that the Israeli army has arrested, even tortured UNRWA staffers, echoing assertions published in the UNRWA’s own report from February, which claimed that detained staffers made false confessions about their ties to Hamas
"Hamas"

...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
under coercion from Israeli soldiers.

Lazzarini, who had warned the agency would be insolvent within weeks after funding was pulled months ago, also revealed that the organization had been able to partly offset the shortfall by raising $100 million from online donations.

Israel rejected the conclusions of the report released Monday, saying it was sidestepping the issue.

"This is not what a true and comprehensive investigation looks like," said the Israeli statement. "This is what a desire to avoid the problem and not call it by its name looks like."

Israel’s Foreign Ministry charged that Hamas’s penetration of UNRWA is so deep that "it is impossible to say where UNRWA ends and Hamas begins," as a review of the organization’s links to terror was released.

Numerous past reports have found that UNRWA schools and teachers continue to teach hatred of Jews and glorify terrorism, including a 2022 report by the IMPACT-SE organization that UNRWA textbooks continue to contain incitement. A 2023 report by the same organization along with the UN Watch group cited dozens of examples of social media posts by UNRWA employees that "glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism."

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-25 01:00|| || Front Page|| [229 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 real progress

UNRWA personnel, lamp posts, rope, assembly?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-25 03:40|| 2024-04-25 03:40|| Front Page Top

#2 How about a candid examination of the real purpose of UNRWA ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-25 03:53|| 2024-04-25 03:53|| Front Page Top

#3 UNRWA personnel, lamp posts, rope, assembly?

I think we need to make use of the economies of scale, like industrial shredders and wood chippers.

a candid examination of the real purpose of UNRWA

IMHO, the name alone gives it away. UNRWA - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Not quite as succinct as Death to Juice, but it does give you the flavor.

Posted by SteveS 2024-04-25 05:48|| 2024-04-25 05:48|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Very much on point.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-04-25 06:23|| 2024-04-25 06:23|| Front Page Top

#5 So this is where the 45% capital gains tax is going?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-25 07:59|| 2024-04-25 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 So this is where the 45% capital gains tax is going?

Well that, and the legal fees required to force more EV chargers on the already over-stressed grid (without upgrading the grid itself, of course).

Oh, and the paying off the student loans of kids who took meaningless and irrelevant courses in college.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-04-25 10:23|| 2024-04-25 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "The White House says it will "have to see real progress" before restoring its funding to the United Nations"...

How about NEVER.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2024-04-25 10:45|| 2024-04-25 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I.e. funding will recommence after the election.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-04-25 11:49|| 2024-04-25 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Does "real progress" translate to renegotiated kickback percentages?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-04-25 12:52|| 2024-04-25 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ No, it's still 10% for the big guy.

Posted by alanc 2024-04-25 16:20|| 2024-04-25 16:20|| Front Page Top

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